Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-10-01

Kelly. Netterfield has been wild boy,
having been in the reform school and
served term OF years in the regular army
at Fit Smelling.
Dennis n. O'Brien, formerly of Owa-
tonna, Mimi, was murdered at Maiden,
Mont, on the 18th inst. Mr.. O'Brien was
the son Of Mr.. James O'Brien, who former
II lived in Blooming Prairie. His mother
isnow resident of Owatonna. 1t seems
that Mr.. O'Brien had claim in the Flor
ence mine. He went to the mine to carry
was shot by man named Burgess and in
stantly killed. Burgess formerly owned
an interest In the mine, which had been
purchased by Mr.. O'Brien at a sheriff sale,
and this is supposed to have been the cause
of the murder.
j. w. Cottell, who was Iowa's Audi
tor Of State from 1859 to 1864, and after
ward appointed to the same office by Gov
Sherman when he forcibly expelled Auditor
Brown from his Office with the militia in
1855, died at his home near Des Moines,
from the effects of an accident. Mr.. Cottell
was watering his horses, when they started,
and in attempting to stop them he was
thrown down and the heavily loaded wagon
passed over his hip. The injury at first was
notsupposed to be dangerous, but later his
condition became alarming and he died
Mr.. Cottell was sixty-seven years of age.
A Binghamton, OAK, special reports
two fatal accidents at that place. J. T.
Davis school teacher, while handling his
gun accidentally discharged it, A lad
named johnson, son of farmer, about
nine years old, standing by, received the
charge in his forehead, blowing the whole
top Of head off and killing him instantly.
no blame attaches to him. A girl fourteen
years old, daughter of Farmer Patterson,
was toying with a revolver, which went off,
producing a wound from which she died in
four hours.
Ortonyille, Mimi, has provided for
the issuance of water works bonds to the
amount of Sc, GOO, and it is expected the city
will be abundantly provided with fire pro-
lection before snow flies. Work will be
commenced at once and completed within
20 days. The tank system has been adopted,
4 and a 20, OO0-barrel tank Will be erected on
| the high ground near the court house,
which will give head of 10000 feet, which
experts say will provide ample fire protec-
ton. This will reduce insurance from 2 to
per cent.
At Arlington, Mimi, W. M. Fuerst-
now, aged IS, was found hanging by the
neck to the rafters of his room, suspended
by two thicknesses Of binding twine The
body, when found, was cold. The rope
having stretched. he was standing fat
footed upon the floor. His bed stood two
feet from the Irvine, from which he must
have swung himself off gently to avoid
breaking it. The moose used was formed
by Irvine passing through an old buckle.
New Richmond, Wis, had accidents
! on each of its railroads. At the Omaha
freight yards a boy had foot taken off by
| the cars while switching. The westward
bound passenger train on the Wisconsin
Central found the body of a man on the
evidently been killed by freight train
during the night His name was Thos. Huff,
laborer in Burvold's brick yard
Jas. 81. Scott, a Scandinavian laborer
of st. Paul, Mimi, with wife and three
children, was fatally shot in the groin, by
his friend Cool Olson, to whom Scott was
showing self-acting revolver he had pur
chased. In OlsOn's untutOred hand the gun
went off giving Scott mortal wound.
The dying man made statement under
oath that the shooting was purely acct
| dental.
Fully one hundred cars of ore were
| damaged by the wreck of runaway train
ct Marquette, Mich. The body of William
| +. Mahan, the missing conductor, was
found under hundred tons Of ore and a
pile OF wreckage twenty five feet high. He
was twenty-one years old and lived at
Houghton. Fully fifty cars are total
wreck, The loss will be at least s25OOOO.
A 17-year old boy, son of John
Erah1or
il a field 10 miles from Waterloo, Iowa.
and was thought to be in perfectly good
health. He ate a hearty dinner and re-
turned to his work with two other men.
and after having worked an hour he fell
backward and expired Immediately.
At Henderson, Num-, the Catholic
church and st. Joseph's academy were
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000, partly
insured. It was a frame church and q
brick academy. The wind was blowing
hard. Another house caught fire from the
elnders, and careful watching alone saved
the town. brick church will likely be-
A freight train ON the Milwaukee &,
Northern road ran through an open switch
81 layton, in Calumet county, Wis.
Several cars we're demolished. The wreck
James Donnelly of Milwaukee was caught
nnaeE the burning debris. Brakeman Fay
1s salo 20 nave been at fault and is missing.
At Winona, Mimi. complaint has
been filed by ]. F. Lewis charging man
named Brennan with the abduction of his
daughter, girl of "A years, for Immoral
purposes 1t is said he took the girl to q
hotel in Lacrosse and remained with her
over night. She came back to Winona the
next day. A warrant is out for his arrest.
Joseph Mandary, formerly Mime
apolis butcher, but latterly living near st.
James, Mimi, visited that town and
started home drunk. He and his team were
found in his yard the next morning. He
was hanging by his feet in the springs and
ground about three auarters of a mile. -
Thomas Hoff, of New Richmond
Wis. returning; home in an intoxicated
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